after yesterdays April Fool's update, our sanity officially returned. You certainly discovered that a change to 16-Bit sprites and graphics just couldn't be true. After all the time that we spent polishing the game to look amazing in HD, we would not want to go back to the pixel drawing board now. We're happy to report that the new hand-drawn animation and transformation updates work incredibly well and we can't wait to show you how the game is looking in motion now. Please look forward to it!

With the new in-game character design we also had to update the cinematics and we're happy to report that the job is almost done. You'll see the end results in the final game. However, you deserve at least a little glimpse of it - especially after our fake news post from yesterday, so here we go:

Screenshot of the lovely new anime style opening of Monster Boy.

To get the best possible results we assigned Japanese animation company Nomad to this job. We'd like to thank Ryuichi Nishizawa again for connecting us with Nomad. It's been a really creative process starting with the exchange of scribbles, rough animation and ideas; resulting in an amazing new opening cinematic. A fantastic team effort!

Hi guys! The new art style looks good, but to be honest.. his upper arms are super thin! I don´t believe that he is able to swing a sword to kill all kinds of enemies. No chance to make his upper arms more thicker? Giving him arms of a MAN? xD Even Link has thicker arms and Link is a p*ssy nowadays^^ It reads very harsh now; it´s not that harsh from my side, but if you think about it you maybe agree.

I know it´s the style the people want today, but after seeing this picture it´s the first time I start to think about not buying it.

ALFREDO on Friday, April 13. 2018:

I don´t understand why people must complain this way all the time. Good games take some time. Look how many years GTA V needed - people never complained about it because they didn´t know that it was in the making for so long. If people know about the time range and they have to wait a few years, they easily use the internet to cry about the waiting time. Grow up, there are millions of games to be played until this game comes out. In a specific way it´s okay to be impatient if you know that the game will be great, but then show it in the form of excitement. Good games need some time, unless you want to play an unfinished game to complain even more.

Spidey981 on Monday, April 16. 2018:

Hi, all fans. A new video animations by hand, the quality is average because it is filmed with a phone but it gives a very good preview thanks to @JohnAndersen21 on Twitter . Here is the link https://twitter.com/JohnAndersen21/status/985619216148688897?s=19

Fernando on Saturday, April 21. 2018:

Spidey981 Hello On Thursday 8 March you said: "We expect to post some new game on Tuesday, April 24. 2018:

Hello

On Thursday 8 March you said: "We expect to post some new game clips next month". It's April 24 and still no clips. Please, a 10 or 15 minute gameplay video with the new animations would be really cool. When do you plan to release a new video? Thank you

Locomotive on Tuesday, May 1. 2018:

Spidey981 on Tuesday, May 1. 2018:

Hello,
On Thursday March 8 you said: We expect to post some new game clips next month.
I'm sorry to insist but still nothing today.
I'm not asking for a date but just a gameplay video or a new trailer please. Thank you

FDG,Thomas on Monday, May 21. 2018:

Hi Spidey,
sorry but we've been too busy to take care of the blog. We're wrapping up development and all of us are working around the clock on the console version submissions, age rating submissions etc. Please expect an update around E3